Piranhea Explained

Piranhea is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae described as a genus in 1866.^{[1] [2]}

Piranhea is native to South America and to Mexico.^{[3] [4]}

species^[3]

1. Piranhea longipedunculata Jabl. - Venezuela, N Brazil
2. Piranhea mexicana (Standl.) Radcl.-Sm. - Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa
3. Piranhea securinega Radcl.-Sm. & Ratter - Bahia, Goiás, Minas Gerais
4. Piranhea trifoliata Baill. - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil

See also

• Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6524521#page/236/mode/1up Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1866. Adansonia 6: 235-238
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009472 Tropicos, Piranhea Baill.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=156644 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.